Nothing But a Mutt

Nothing But a Mutt

I am the "What are you?"

the "Where are you from?"

I am white, Spanish, African, Indian

I have a white family

I have black and Spanish too

In the place I live, white is an honor

while blacks are only "hoodrats"

My family is both superior and inferior

All my homies are getting shot

White people are the shooters

You see, I have no true identity

My category is undefined

But it doesn't really matter at all

All non-whites are grouped together

Neither side will claim me

I'm too tainted by the other

Tainted by my preference

Or lack of preference

There's nothing worse than an unknown girl

Other than an unknown girl in love with a girl

I am seventeen years of defiance

of unnamed mutt

of another colored girl in jail

I am alone and isolated

Addict going nowhere, another statistic

I am white, Spanish, African, Indian

How about you?